ICE Announces Three-Prong Workplace Enforcement Strategy
Posted By Roy J. Barquet on 26 February 2018
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On January 10, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a statement detailing a new, comprehensive worksite enforcement strategy that incorporates: (i) increased Form I-9 audits; (ii) more unannounced worksite raids; and (iii) promotion of an undersubscribed, voluntary compliance program created in 2006 known as IMAGE [ICE Mutual Agreement and Employers program]. The ICE statement also heralded the conclusion of a six-year ICE investigation that led Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (Asplundh) to plead guilty on September 28, 2017, to a criminal count of unlawfully employing undocumented workers. As part of the plea agreement, Asplundh received a court-imposed sentence requiring it to pay a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $80 million and an additional $15 million to satisfy civil claims arising out of Asplundh’s failure to comply with federal employee eligibility laws in its employment practice of knowingly hiring undocumented workers. Prior to this conviction, the often ICE-touted “record settlement†of $20.7 million was paid in 2006 by Systems North America Inc.
https://www.laboremploymentperspectives.com/2018/02/26/ice-announces-three-prong-workplace-enforcement-strategy/
